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Alabama Governor George Smith Houston (779 words) |
 | George Smith Houston was born on January 17, 1811, in Williamson County, Tennessee, the son of David and Hannah Pugh (Reagan) Houston. |
| Houston was consistently opposed to secession and ran as a Unionist candidate for Congress in 1850. |
| Houston was an immensely popular man who became known as the "Bald Eagle of the Mountains." The conservative Democrats won by a large majority during the 1874 gubernatorial election, bringing about the victory of the "White Supremacy" in Alabama. |
| George S. Houston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (229 words) |
| George Smith Houston (January 17, 1811–December 31, 1879) was an American Democratic politician who was the Governor of Alabama from 1874 to 1878. |
| Born in 1811 in Franklin, Tennessee, he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1866 but was not allowed to take his seat, as Alabama was still under Reconstruction. |
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